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Democrats have seen Texas on long eyes as a place where they dreamed of breaking. As the population is shifted in the state, the Republicans have spent years the voter suppressing laws and gerrymandered maps as part of their plan to retain power.
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In 2025, those stars can align.
Attorney General Ken Paxton is wild unpopular. He is the embodiment of what many Texans regard as a corrupt state republican party.
Paxton has decided the Octogenary Senator John Cornyn who is not popular either, but the problem of Cornyn is that he is very unpopular with the Republican voters who will vote in the Texas Primary.
The Super Pac -arm of the Senate Republicans is the Senate’s leadership fund and they recently explained how expensive it will be to try to save Cornyn.
The Senate Leadership Fund, the Top Gop Super PAC focused on senate competitions, urged donors last week to open their wallet to help Cornyn’s attorney -general Ken Paxton in Texas, which claims that the race could be a valuable disaster without immediate intervention.
Their message, as recorded in an SLF -Dia performance obtained by Punchbowl News, is Stark – Invest now in Cornyn or try to choose Paxton to choose the next fall.
SLF expected that it would cost between $ 25 million to $ 70 million to help Cornyn win the Gop nomination – or $ 200 million to $ 250 million required to save Paxton in the general elections.
Paxton could cost the Senate Republicans nearly $ 300 million if he becomes the nominee. Those are not the costs to pick up a chair. It will have to be spent to save a chair in Texas.
That is $ 300 million that does not go to other Republican candidates from the Senate in races for open seats in places such as North Carolina and Michigan.
The Senate Leadership Fund has started the fundraising mechanism by Mitch McConnell. The SLF is the only external organization dedicated to the Senate Republicans, so if it has to spend $ 300 million to protect one chair, it will be a disaster for the Gop.
In the worst case, Republicans will spend hundreds of millions of dollars in Texas and be weaker in other states. In the best case, for Democrats, Paxton wins the nomination, Republicans spend hundreds of millions of dollars and are still losing.
If Democrats reclaim the Senate in 2026, this will probably be largely due to success in Texas.
It can finally be time for Texas to turn a little blue.
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